Thank you, Madam Chair.
Good morning. Thanks to our witnesses for being here this morning.
I am happy that your presentations are over this morning. We really needed a kind of cooling-down period. It was a very emotional climate and we probably needed to get back on a more rational track. That was quite difficult for me. I am a very passionate woman, and I lost it a little this morning. It was very hard.
Muriel, tell me what you think of the perpetuation of colonial attitudes when bills like the one on matrimonial rights are imposed. Aboriginal women's groups were not consulted and the result will be that the violence will continue. If the bill is passed, aboriginal women will not really be able to exercise their rights.